Lisa Donovan

The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine and government stimulus checks boosted consumer spending across the Chicago metro area in the first six months of 2021, a new analysis of local...

U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh says the disappointing jobs report released in recent days points not only to fears among eligible workers about COVID-19's highly contagious delta variant, but also...

U.S. home prices have been at record highs in every major metro area but Chicago, where the market is hot but a number of factors, from a slow recovery after...

The James R. Thompson Center could be transformed from an unkempt state office building into a "vertical neighborhood" anchored at ground level by an indoor park next to the Chicago...

Chicago is messing with Texas. World Business Chicago, the public-private operation that serves as the city's economic development arm, said it took out a full-page ad in the Sunday Dallas...

From Wall Street to LaSalle Street, economists to consumers, the rising costs of goods and services are on the radar after years of dormant inflation. Earlier this year, economists sent...

The U.S. Education Department announced Thursday it would forgive federal student loan debts for 100,000-plus students who attended ITT Technical Institute but left before graduating from the defunct for-profit college...

The state has extended the cutoff date for any would-be buyers to bid on Chicago's James R. Thompson Center, but officials say they're sticking to their April 2022 deadline to...